Premier League Golden Boot
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The Premier League Golden Boot is an annual association football award presented to the leading goalscorer in the Premier League. For sponsorship purposes, from 1994 to 2001 it was called the Carling Golden Boot and from 2001 to 2004, the Barclaycard Golden Boot; as of 2015, it is referred to as the Barclays Golden Boot.[1][2] In addition to the trophy, winners of the Golden Boot are usually given £1,000 for every goal they scored throughout the season to donate to a charity of their choice,[3][4] although Robin van Persie was given £30,000 after scoring 26 goals in the 2012–13 season.[5][6]
The Premier League was founded in 1992, when the clubs of the First Division left The Football League and established a new commercially independent league that negotiated its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements.[2] The newly formed league had no sponsor for its inaugural season until Carling agreed to a four-year £12 million deal that started the following season,[7] and it was simply known as the Premier League in its first year.[2] As a result, the award was called the "Premier League Golden Boot" when Teddy Sheringham received the inaugural award in 1993.[8] Originally consisting of 22 teams, the league contracted to 20 teams after the 1994–95 season; this reduced the number of games played from 42 to 38.[2]
Thierry Henry has won the Golden Boot on four occasions, more than any other player. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Dwight Yorke were the first non-English and non-European winners, respectively, when they shared the award with Michael Owen in 1999. A year later, Kevin Phillips became the last English player – as of the 2013–14 season – to earn the Golden Boot.[9] Alan Shearer is the only player other than Henry to win the award in three consecutive seasons.[10] Phillips, Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suárez won the European Golden Shoe in the same season as the Premier League Golden Boot,[10][11] with Henry achieving this on two occasions (2004 and 2005).[12] Shearer, Hasselbaink and Van Persie are the only players to win the Golden Boot with two clubs.[13]
Andy Cole and Shearer – with 34 goals in 1993–94 and 1994–95, respectively – scored the most goals to win the Golden Boot,[10][upper-alpha 1] while Nicolas Anelka scored the fewest to clinch the award outright, with 19 goals in 2008–09.[8] The all-time record for lowest number of goals scored to be bestowed the award, however, is 18 goals; this was achieved during the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons, when the award was shared between three players both times.[15] The latter season marked the last time the Golden Boot was shared until 2010–11,[16] when Dimitar Berbatov and Carlos Tevez both scored 20 goals that season to tie for the award.[17] Suárez recorded the highest goals-to-games ratio to win the award, scoring 31 goals in 33 games in 2013–14 for a rate of 0.94.[18][19]
Winners
![Teddy Sheringham – wearing a long-sleeved white jersey, dark blue shorts and a Premier League captain's armband on the left arm – points at himself.](/w/images/thumb/1/13/Teddy_Sheringham_finger_snipped.jpg/300px-Teddy_Sheringham_finger_snipped.jpg)
![Cristiano Ronaldo – wearing a long-sleeved red jersey, white shorts with a number 7 on the left-leg side and a white armband on the left arm – prepares to take a free kick.](/w/images/thumb/3/3d/C_Ronaldo.jpg/300px-C_Ronaldo.jpg)
Player (X) | Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one) |
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Games | The number of Premier League games played by the winner that season[upper-alpha 2] |
Rate | The winner's goals-to-games ratio that season |
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Indicates multiple award winners in the same season |
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Indicates player also won the European Golden Shoe in the same season |
§ | Denotes the club were Premier League champions in the same season |
Awards won by nationality
Country | Total |
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10 |
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5 |
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5 |
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2 |
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2 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1 |
Awards won by club
Club | Total |
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Manchester United | 5 |
Arsenal | 5 |
Chelsea | 4 |
Blackburn Rovers | 3 |
Liverpool | 3 |
Manchester City | 2 |
Newcastle United | 2 |
Tottenham Hotspur | 1 |
Coventry City | 1 |
Leeds United | 1 |
Sunderland | 1 |
See also
- English football first tier top scorers
- List of Premier League players with 100 or more goals
- List of top Premier League goal scorers by season
Notes
- ↑ Cole and Shearer won the Golden Boot when the Premier League still operated a 42-game season. Shearer, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suárez scored the most goals in a 38-game season with 31 goals in 1995–96, 2007–08 and 2013–14, respectively.[2][3][14]
- ↑ This does not necessarily match the total number of games in a season.
- ↑ From the 1995–96 season onwards, the Premier League was reduced from 22 teams to 20,[20] thus reducing the number of games in a league season from 42 to 38.
- ↑ Teddy Sheringham scored his first goal of the 1992–93 season as a Nottingham Forest player,[21] while the rest of his goals were scored for Tottenham Hotspur following his transfer in August 1992.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 When rounding to three significant figures, Ronaldo's goal ratio in the 2007–08 season was 0.912, while Drogba's 2009–10 ratio was 0.906.[29]
- ↑ Arsenal's official website incorrectly lists Van Persie as having played 37 games in the 2011–12 season. He played all 38 games, as confirmed by the Premier League.[33]
References
General
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